I’m glad the lawsuits didn’t kill them but what Kahle tried to do with “Open Library” and “Project 78” was truly insane. Admirable but insane. They absolutely had to know right from the outset that the Media Companies weren’t going to allow it to continue post-COVID.

I suppose but it was originally intended to take effect in 2008 and it’s not even fully in effect yet, that will happen in 2027.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act

You really need to research this issue instead of knee jerking to the most recent events. Even Red States were fighting this as far back as 2010.

Real ID is not new and the recent domestic flight enforcement was just the LAST part of a law passed nearly 20 years ago.

Real ID was passed after 9/11. Has nothing to do with the current clowns.

Reolink for the cameras and deny them internet access. You can tell them to record to internal SD Card and / or setup an NVR like Frigate. If you don’t want “roll your own” headaches and have the money for it then use gear from Ubiquiti and UniFi Protect.

Which means they have to run and maintain servers.

I’d bet money that it works just like similar devices from Reolink. Local recording to SD Card or NVR. If you want cloud recording then you’re paying a monthly subscription.

This device from Aldi is at a very low pricepoint but it’s specs are garbage. 480p recording? In 2025? C’mon…

This is why Home Assistant exists.

And they were spraying all kinds of nasty shit…

Yes they used literal shit, both animal and human.

…on grass that isn’t native…

I can’t answer that but it really wouldn’t surprise me. The ruling class commonly imported plants and animals from all over the world.

…to make it look pretty?

No pictures exist, obviously, but I’m quite sure that groundskeepers were doing whatever was necessary to make their Lords estate look as good as possible.

We also have them because they are nice to look at, smell good, and pleasant to use; the exact same reasons that the wealthy had them.

Most alternatives to a traditional lawn lose at least two of those and they can take just as much time to maintain.

Suburban lawns are a problem but there’s very few, if any, alternatives that provide the same benefits.

Today’s lawn is pretty much a tiny copy of the Estate Grounds that the Aristocrats used to have.

Hell we don’t even know where the money is coming from (our Government is shut down right now, remember?) let alone what form the transfer will take.

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First one to build the unconnected EV where the purchaser has admin rights (and no one else), wins the race.

Here in the United States a person can already build new or convert existing gasoline vehicles to be “unconnected” and in every way except possibly the battery management doing it with an EV would actually be easier.

It does cost money and take some time but probably less of both than you may think.

The crabs do that through self organization. There’s nothing stopping anyone from building a group of like minded people to do it.

Okay I think I mis-handled the threading. I thought you were replying to the comment about dumb phones and those are most definitely available in the United States.

You are looking for something that runs Sailfish but that OS is meant for the Euro market so its targeted at handsets meant for use there. The entire supported device list is a measly 16 handsets and all but one of those are made by Sony! It’s a crazily niche OS.

The radios inside American cells phones are controlled by parents and property standards…

Yes, I’m aware of that. It’s literally no different for European cell phones. The Jolla C2 is a rebadged Reeder S19 Pro Max S and whatever modem is buried in that thing is going to have precisely the same issues. Patents are global and at this point even the Chinese are following them, much less a small Turkish manufacturer like Reeder.

(which is a fully programmable tracking device almost hidden to the OS BTW)

They’re all like this. All of them. Even the ones in a handset running Sailfish.

you cannot reproduce or even modify the radios due to this horrible law in the U.S called DMCA

The DMCA has very little to do with Software Defined Radios…which is precisely what the modem chips in these handsets are. Frankly I don’t WANT people fucking with the SDR in their handsets. You can do it with lots of other SDRs (GMRS, Amateur, WiFi, etc) and people inevitably abuse the ability and fuck things ups.

The DMCA is a rotten law but isn’t anywhere close to the biggest problem when it comes to SDRs and Phone Handsets.

In the U.S you can’t buy any of these devices…

No. My Father in Law has one and they’re available from Verizon, AT&T, and others.

…and one of the unofficial conditions of you getting access is that you have to have government surveillance and soon censorship on your device…

Where are you getting this disinformation from?

Some dude’s AR-15 is not going to stop a tank.

You don’t use the AR-15 on the tank. You use it on the people involved in the logistics chain. If that tank doesn’t have a driver, mechanics, fuel, spare parts, etc then the tank is useless. Insurgencies in far away lands didn’t have this option but an insurgency at home certainly would.

This kind of crap is driving popular creators, like Geerling, to move to other places. YT / Alphabet has lost the plot.

Samsung Dex already does this with Android.

Franklin is famous. So is The Kid.